Lindwall-Ekstroem2012

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Lindwall-Ekstroem2012
BibType ARTICLE
Key Lindwall-Ekstroem2012
Author(s) Oskar Lindwall, Anna Ekström
Title Instruction-in-interaction: the teaching and learning of a manual skill
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Tag(s) EMCA, Training
Publisher
Year 2012
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City
Month
Journal Human Studies
Volume 35
Number 1
Pages 27–49
URL Link
DOI 10.1007/s10746-012-9213-5
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Institution
School
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Howpublished
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Abstract

This study takes an interest in instructions and instructed actions in the context of manual skills. The analysis focuses on a video recorded episode where a teacher demonstrates how to crochet chain stitches, requests a group of students to reproduce her actions, and then repeatedly corrects the attempts of one of the students. The initial request, and the students’ responses to it, could be seen as preliminary to the series of corrective sequences that come next: the request and the following attempts make it possible for the teacher to launch instructional sequences specifically designed and addressed to the students who need further guidance. In the interaction between the teacher and the novice student, the reasoned character of the instructed actions is not explained so much as installed and tuned. The materiality of the project makes it possible for the two parties to methodically and meticulously adjust their actions in accordance with each other, and towards the gradual realization of the aimed-for results. In connection to this, a number of issues pertaining to the reproducibility and recognizability of manual skills are raised: how instructions-in-interaction orient towards the progression of the skill rather than the interaction itself; how attempts by and mistakes of the instructed party provide grounds for further instruction; and, consequently, how instructions in the form of corrections build on the instructor’s continuous assessments of the instructed actions.

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